HEY EVERYONE! Come and see Rep. Greg Gianforte’s mugshot! This is the face of a man who assaulted a reporter for asking him a question on public policy positions. And then got elected to Congress the next day. (THANKS MONTANA.)

Dominic is a journalist, photographer and 'Yr Wonkette morning person! He lives in Chicago, drinks coffee, and screams about technology. You can usually find him in a crappy bar talking to weirdos, or laying in a gutter taking pictures.

I got to meet him when I was a kid in the 1960s. He seemed really cool. Of course I was about 7.

From Russia with Love

Meh, I used to do that all the time.

Pilotshark

“There was a demon that lived in the air. They said whoever challenged him would die. Their controls would freeze up, their planes would buffet wildly, and they would disintegrate. The demon lived at Mach 1 on the meter, seven hundred and fifty miles an hour, where the air could no longer move out of the way. He lived behind a barrier through which they said no man could ever pass. They called it the sound barrier.”

I would love to see an interview where, in response to some criticism, Trump goes into one of his long, disjointed explanations on why he did the absolutely right thing and nobody could have done it better and have the interviewer say, “Obama would have done it better.”

People would think they were watching a trailer for a Scanners reboot.

Bright Bart

gays for Trump?! Is that a thing? They must be the loneliest three gays ever.

It’s largely the “I don’t want to pay taxes on my Mama’s divorce settlement with the president of “military-industrial corporation X” crowd. Not a big crowd.

Rocket Pony Ron

‘Lettuce, Guac, Bacon and Tomato.’

Parakeetist

Mmmm

richardgrabman

The white guys who want houseboys.

Parakeetist

They should just be a bowling team.

Jeffery Campbell

Oh, I think they have lots of company amongst the Log Cabin Republicans.

Christopher Story

They have Daddy issues

grindstone

They have theirs, and fuck you. No different from your semi-wealthy uncle who can’t believe they have to pay taxes to subsidize the poors, and then screams that the police don’t do enough. Same old same old.

Parakeetist

This motherfucker should be removed from office just for his negligence with Puerto Rico. People are dying, you cheap trash.

I hate that this motherfucker is from Queens, because I am too.

Riley Whodat Venable

I never judge people by their neighbors. You didn’t pick him.

Parakeetist

Thank you.

Bright Bart

Queens is not sending their best people to the White House (allegedly)

When I can’t sleep, I fantasize about sabotaging Hannity’s show and taking him off the air. I think he might actually be the true villain in all of this, but I’m not sure.

MynameisBlarney

He’s a villain, sure, but not THE villain.
He ain’t smart enough.

Skwerl the Nazi Puncher

the Queen will be busy grouting her tiles.
If there is anyone who can do it right, it’s the Queen!

FlemmishSpy

That’s a wicked euphemism.

Msgr_MΩment

I picture her tiles being excrutiatingly grotty.

BigCSouthside

Honestly, the secret service could fly trump to London, Ohio, have him met at the airport by an old lady wearing a Burger King crown and he’d probably think it’s a state visit.

weighmaster

They should totally do this.

MynameisBlarney

Now THAT would be our tax dollars well fucking spent!

BigCSouthside

Everyone knows he’s a moron. What if the government just spent the next few years pranking him for the lulz. State visit to London Ohio, writing “nuclear football” on an actual football, have Mexico send him bad checks for the wall every week, have the secret service convince him his life is in danger and they are moving him to a secure location which is a coat closet in the East Wing and see how long he’ll stay there etc

weighmaster

At the very least, SNL should do this skit, that’s comedy gold right there.

The Ronald Reagan administration decided to withdraw from the organization in 1984, at the height of the Cold War, citing corruption and what it considered an ideological tilt toward the Soviet Union against the West. President George W. Bush rejoined the organization in 2002, claiming it had gotten its books an order and expunged some of its most virulent anti-Western and anti-Israel biases.

“America will participate fully in its mission to advance human rights, tolerance, and learning,” he said at the time.

But six years ago, the United States cut off more than $80 million a year, about 22 percent of its entire budget for UNESCO, in reprisal for the organization’s acceptance of Palestine as a member. The Obama administration said it had to cut funds because a 1990s-era law prohibits U.S. funding for any U.N. agencies recognizing Palestine as a state.

Despite the funding cut, the United States remains a member of UNESCO and even has a vote on the executive board, which selects the new director-general. But the United States has and it continues to be charged tens of millions in dues each year, and it has lost its voting rights in UNESCO’s principal decision-making body, which is known as the General Conference. That body approves UNESCO’s budget and establishes a range of programs dealing with education, science, and culture around the globe.

As a result of U.S. funding cuts, U.S. arrears have been swelling each year, surpassing $500 million that’s owed to UNESCO.

This move has nothing to do with an “anti-Israel bias”. It’s all about Rump skipping out on another debt.

PubOption

But we don’t need education, science is flawed, and Trumpkins can find all the culture they need in a sports bar.

People are ridiculously stupid. My neighbors are a gay, married couple. They are involved in all sorts of environmental causes, and they voted for Trump. They did it because, “Hillary had too much baggage.” Seriously, I want to run them over every time I see them.

From Russia with Love

I belong to Democrats for Squished Republicans as well.

janecita

To be honest, it’s the best party.

alwayspunkindrublic

Where do I sign up?

alwayspunkindrublic

They’re gay AND environmental activists and they voted for Trump? Mother of God. Trump is like Attila the Hun when it comes to the environment. Thank God your neighbors aren’t breeding.

janecita

The only thing they are breeding is chickens. I was kind of glad when a fox ate a bunch of them, then I felt bad for the poor eaten chickens.

The dunderhead came blowin’ in from NYC
He took the oath, the orange-haired oaf, like he took a pee
And six months on, it’s still going wrong; says “It’s Fake News, not me!”
It’s sad to see, you dunderhead.

Like hurricanes, those golf weekends went flyin’ by
The world is screwed, his mind is skewed, kiss it goodbye
Let’s hope we can survive until Amendment 25
Else we are doomed, by dunderhead

Oh dunderhead
You dunderhead
Dumb dunderhead

mirele

Hahaha, thanks ever so much for the Samantha Bee dick advice and the chicken and peacock video. I’m on a jury for a trial through next week. (Protip: Don’t go to law school thinking you’ll get an automatic exemption from being on juries. This is my second jury trial.) I will remember these videos and hopefully break out in a goofy smile just as counsel for one of the parties is making an inane remark. (Seriously, it’s weird having the entire court looking at you to see what your reaction is to certain testimony.)

Bobathonic

I showed up for jury duty one time, and some woman in then pool stated she didn’t believe she could be fair.

The judge and both attorneys assured her otherwise.

mirele

Yes, the judge here went through that drill with several people on the prospective panel. In my case, she specifically asked me if I could follow all of her rulings. “Yes, ma’am,” I said.

…the Brady Handgun Prevention Act stipulates that when a gun dealer runs a background check, and finds that a would-be customer is a “fugitive from justice,” they can’t sell that person a gun. But there’s been a decade-long dispute between the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives about who, precisely, counts as a fugitive.

The FBI has argued that anyone with an outstanding warrant is a fugitive, at least for the purposes of the Brady law. The ATF has insisted that only people with outstanding warrants who have crossed state lines to avoid prosecution are fugitives. Earlier this year, the Trump Justice Department took the ATF’s side — and drastically narrowed the category of suspected criminals who are legally barred from purchasing firearms….

So?

Although the revision has only been in effect for six months, there has already been a noticeable dip in the number of gun sales denied because the potential buyer was a “fugitive from justice.” According to NICS data, there was an 80 percent decline, compared to the same period in 2016.

…The FBI records show that 518,670 names have been removed from the nationwide background check database, meaning those individuals would not automatically be banned from obtaining a gun.
Nationwide, there were 1,581 gun sales or carry permits sought by fugitives that were declined between March and August in 2016; 18 percent of all denials. This year, there were 321 denials based on entries in the “fugitive from justice” category in NICS, or 4 percent of all denials nationwide.

Law & Order? Fuck no – not if it gets in the way of guns!

FUCK the GOP!

bupkus231

Came back around to my earlier post, and the numbers caught my eye. In that period of March through August 2016, with a little bit of arithmetic ( no math! ), there were some 8700 denials of gun sales or carry permits.

The horrifying bit is that ( from the FBI’s own NICS database ), in that period, there were 12.7M inquiries to the NICS database ( i.e. background checks for gun purchases or carry permits ). Soooo – only about 0.06% of requests to the NICS result in denial.

So, what the fuck are ammonsexuals crying about – the background check system is almost completely ineffective in slowing their mad rush for MOAR GUNZ!

Bill D. Burger

There’s a fucking hypocritical tweet from the moronic dotard for all occasions.

The peacock would have been seducing a more appropriate fowl, but Trump had stolen all the pee-hens.

House0fTheBlueLights

That link about Drumpf and the Truckers from The Hill calls Trump’s win over Clinton “decisive.” wut.

coozledad

Trump just pulled out of UNESCO.

Is he actively trying to create an army of people willing to do anything to get rid of his skank ass?

kaydenpat

Trump won’t be out until and unless Democrats take over Congress.

Oblios_Cap

Who are kids going to carry cans to collect donations for at Halloween?

coozledad

They can just do what the Trump kids did. Show up at the neighbor’s door with a bucket and a goon.

NastyBossetti

What even is the point of that?

Mavenmaven

Trump told the truckers: “For every American across this land, we will bring back our great American dreams,” in other words “By shafting every American across this land, my family and our Rich friends will achieve our great dreams of more money”.

cmd resistor

BTW, where are the Trump in the Trucks photos?

JustPretendImNotHere

Word is that Rose McGowan is writing a book about her life and she is just about out of fucks to give regarding Hollywood. Some folks are worried about what she’ll say them and theirs. (and this was before the shit hit the fan with HW).

And Ben Affleck and Matt “Let me explain diversity to a black woman” Damon can take several seats. The skeletons in your closet have picked the lock…

Bill D. Burger

What the Moron n’ Chief is saying is, the United States’ citizens of Puerto Rico don’t deserve aid from FEMA, 1st Responders or the Military.
Who does then? Why have these emergency systems if not all U.S. citizens are entitled to their assistance?!

Without even knowing it, which is typical of him, he’s pushing the people of PR to move to the mainland, where their votes count. They will most likely cluster in Florida, where they will sure as shit won’t vote Republican next year and will certainly vote against Donald in 2020. This is a unique situation where an entire island has become uninhabitable in many aspects, where its inhabitants have an escape route and a way to inflict vengeance on him with votes. How can he not see that? Well, unless he knows voting doesn’t matter anymore because, like he said, elections are rigged–in his party’s favor.

Bebecca

I think you’re giving him too much credit. He doesn’t have a plan, he plain just doesn’t want to spend the money on those people.

Creepoman

I’m sure Florida legislators and Gov. Batboy will come up with some creative ways to make sure these US citizens will be classified as illegal aliens.

bupkus231

There’s already a lot of talk about how the schools are gonna handle the expected influx of Puerto Rican chilluns. Expect the retirees to bitch about spending munnies on them.

Doubt even Gov. Bat Boy can change citizenship status ( even if he sics AG Pam Blondie on the problem ) – but they’ll find a way to get immigrant/refugees to go elsewhere….

kaydenpat

He doesn’t consider the people of Puerto Rico to be Americans.

Christopher Story

Given where and when he grew up, I’d be surprised if he considers Puerto Ricans human.

Crystalclear12

*looks at wonkagenda, looks at alcohol supply, looks at wonkagenda*
Yep, supply run is needed.

Yup. Several times. And there’s one that passes just north of my town several times a week.

bupkus231

Last year, when it seemed that was happening weekly, there was a lot of agita in the local press around DC, about the CSX line that ran only a few blocks from the Capitol. There was “concern” that some of those Bakken oil trains would be routed through DC….

Are we just evening out the statistical odds this year – or did the rail companies finally figure out a solution or invest enough money in unexplodey tank cars that we haven’t heard so much about them lately?

Rocket Pony Ron

IIRC, it’s the latter. The railroads and car leasing companies have invested quite a lot in improving safety because they don’t want to lose that business.

Candy Matson

Bonus for being extra phallic!

Cousin Itt un Mondialiste

Fucking bastard president.

Bill D. Burger

…and a moronic dotard son of a bitch also/too!

Viktor

The laziest man in the world is Donald Trump. He’s never driven a car as far as I know, requires a staff of 100’s to pamper him at his Tower and country clubs etc… What has he done lately besides sign papers and Twitter?

Nobody bothered to tell homeowners around Houston’s reservoirs that they bought houses in emergency flood zones, and science bozos are warning that those dams and reservoirs are at serious risk of future failure.

Facebook’s automatic algorithm for blocking posts is easy to manipulate. Nazi’s, actual real Nazi’s, and trolls figured out how to exploit the system years ago.

Get enough of your friends to report a post for violating community standards and a the deletion/block is automatic. No human being will ever even look at it. The best part is that if FB blocks you for violating community standards, you get blocked from contacting FB via any FB portal, like messenger, and have to jump through hoops to contact them to get your posting privileges restored or to get the post restored.

No matter how many people complain about it, FB won’t change how it gets done, so it’s still a major exploit to be abused.

Msgr_MΩment

All those “gays for Trump” are full of sads now that they realize their big papa Trump has grabbed them by the pussy and moved on them like a bitch.

Worse. No furniture shopping.

Rocket Pony Ron

None of the gays I know would trust his decorating judgement. Louis XIV is SO tacky.

Viktor

The odd thing is if you peruse Breitbart comments, and see an anti gay one, the bigots on Breitbart will horde the comment to denounce you as anti gay and bigoted.

dshwa

The Queen’s going to be busy playing with her Corgis. She prefers orange furred animals that are affectionate and can be trained not to shit on the antique furniture.

Oblios_Cap

So poor Donnie will have to stay in the Embassy instead of in the Queen’s gilded palace? Sad!

Rocket Pony Ron

Yup. No Trump properties in London.

Ghenghis McCann

So he won’t be able to charge the Secret Service for accommodation? He’ll be reduced to begging in the street at this rate.

Rocket Pony Ron

Ah, I see you’ve found my secret wish list.

miss_grundy

He’ll probably demand to commute from Scotland where he has a golf course.

miss_grundy

At least he won’t be able to pee on a bed in the palace.

Bill D. Burger

Volunteer Nurses in Puerto Rico sounded the alarm on preventable waterborne Leptospirosis outbreak days ago and still there is NO response from FEMA or the White House.
Surprise!

Naw. It’s all part of his master plan towards the vinyl solution. He’s going to let the banksters repossess the islands (since they won’t be able to get their $70bn in bonds) and turn them into vinyl barbie playgrounds for the rich, like turtle island, but with a more diverse underage prostitutes or something.

Bub, the cynical zombie

Don’t forget that Uncle Dotard is doing his best to goad “little Rocket Man” into a nuclear strike that could target Guam.

cmd resistor

So I have read a couple of places that Jimmy Carter is willing to go talk to Rocket Man, which sounds like a decent idea to me, which probably means they won’t let it happen.

Elvis Causticfellow

History’s two greatest monsters!

Parakeetist

Sweet Jesus. If I were President, I’d have sent half the Marine Corps, and all the food, water and doctors they could carry.

Duke

Thanks, Ms. Bee. But… It’s not ugly. Not! Not! Not!

sigh…

Toomush_Inferesistance

Stick it in the eye of the beholder?…

LeighBowery’sLuxuryComedy

There’s a reason the term ‘bumping uglies’ exists. To be fair, that term applies no matter what plumbing you sport (imo ymmv etc)

This is the difficulty with “tax reform” ( Who knew it could be so hard? ). It sounds great that you’ll close loopholes – but when push comes to shove, there’s either a very good reason for the loophole, or there’s an army of lobbyists and billionaire’s money arguing against closing ’em.

Anyone who believes we will ever achieve “true” tax reform that is fair ( including the “fair ( flat ) tax” idjits ) us as delusional as Rump himself….

Twitter policy: “…may suspend an account if it has been reported to us as violating our Rules surrounding abuse. When an account engages in abusive behavior, like sending threats to others or impersonating other accounts, we may suspend it temporarily or, in some cases, permanently.”

How the fuck does Rose McGowan get her account suspended while President Fucking Moron keeps his? Hypocrisy much, Twitter?

Blackest Noobs

misogyny much….It’s American…more so than racism. sooo soooo much so.

Hamilton Ω, AKA Formerly DN

$Profit$

jesterpunk

Twitter said they wont suspend Trump’s account because he is “starting a conversation” and “speaking directly to people” basically TL;DR $$$$$.

arglebargle

The peacock and chicken is a metaphor for Trump and his base?

Bebecca

I don’t think trump understands his job. He thinks he can just cancel a project if he chooses because it’s not going well and he’s doing that with Puerto Rico.

“He will be the most gay-friendly Republican nominee for president ever,” Gregory T. Angelo, the president of the Log Cabin Republicans, insisted to The New York Times in April 2016.

Sadly, Mr. Angelo was actually right; Dampnut IS the most gay-friendly Republican[…] president. But the fact that these people are actually SHOCKED, SHOCKED I TELL YOU! that this administration turned out to be not so gay-friendly is just so adorable.

Villago Delenda Est

You neglected to include that Gregory made that statement from the Kapo barracks at Fag Relocation Camp #13.

Candy Matson

So about the dead white people clothes: so people donate their old clothes, which are then SOLD? I don’t really understand that. If they’re donated, shouldn’t they then be donated (to people who want them)?

I mean, I get it, you can buy a janky old dresser at goodwill for a dollar and then slap a coat of paint on it and sell it for $30, I understand that. But goodwill doesn’t drop off free dressers at your house for you to sell at your garage sale, does it?

How are companies receiving donated goods and then selling them at a profit? That goes into your pocket instead of to the charitable organizations that received the goods? Am I missing something? My brain is struggling with this one.

(And do American companies doing this get a kind of tax break for handling charitable donations that they then sell?)

Ghenghis McCann

What happens, in the UK at least, is that you get a plastic bag through your letterbox with the name of a charity in big print on it. You’re invited to fill it with old clothes and leave it to be collected. It’s only when you read the small print that you find that the people you’re giving the clothes to are going to sell the clothes, and make a donation to the charity. I keep the bags to use when I take stuff to a real charity.

bupkus231

You see that with a lot of the “charity drop-boxes” in shopping centers around the country – clothes, shoes, winter clothing, books. 90% of them go to a third-party company that resells, then ( supposedly ) donates the proceeds to the charity.

Face it, that’s the way “charity” works in America. Some third-party solicitors are better than others, but they all dip their beaks….

Finnibar87

It’s the rag trade.

Clothes from Goodwill and Salvation Army quite often end up in places in Africa.

i read somewhere (and of course, like trumpy, i can’t remember) that these “charities” have an unfair advantage over local clothing businesses in the 3rd world since they’re getting their supply for virtually nothing and can undersell.

here in jersey city, when the weather is nice, there are usually groups of women hanging out by the drop off bins, who will intercept donors so they can go through the clothing first and then sell it.

but i betcha those stupid fuck Latinos that did vote him will do it again.
we have a stupid problem and it goes beyond race.
pretty much everyone.

miss_grundy

Like the dumb lady in Puerto Rico who voted for him and can’t understand why help from the federal government has been lacking in his administration. Someone should have told her that he hates Puerto Ricans.

Villago Delenda Est

They are, as far as he is concerned, Mezikens, just like those from Spain or Argentina.

Blackest Noobs

someone should have told them He hates everyone who isn’t white and wealthy…he could give a fuck-all to the rest of us, white or colored, doesn’t matter if we are less wealthy than that asshole.

Regarding the CEO of AccuWeather being nominated to be head of NOAA: GOP senators, past and present have pushed for privatization of the National Weather Service – and making AccuWeather the primary provider of weather information for the U.S.

Villago Delenda Est

AccuWeather gets its information from NOAA.

Johnatx

Check out this link.
New Legislation Aims to Privatize the NWS: …http://www.nwseo.org/Four Winds 2016/16_06_06_LegistlationtoPrivatizeNWS.pdf

Villago Delenda Est

This is bullshit. Privatizing the NWS is unspeakably stupid.

Johnatx

When did being stupid ever stop a Republican?

Johnatx

At the present, yes. See below

TundraGrifter

You beat me to it! The Federal government does the heavy lifting – AccuWeather skims off the cream. It’s like a married person having an affair.

The dunderhead came blowin’ in from NYC
He took the oath, the orange-haired oaf, like he took a pee
And six months on, it’s still going wrong; says “It’s Fake News, not me!”
It’s sad to see, you dunderhead.

Like hurricanes, those golf weekends went flyin’ by
The world is screwed, his mind is skewed, kiss it goodbye
Let’s hope we can survive until Amendment 25
Else we are doomed, by dunderhead

Oh dunderhead
You dunderhead
Dumb dunderhead

cmd resistor

Another busy day for Trump, as listed on his FB page:
Schedule for Thursday, October 12th:
· Sign Executive Order to promote healthcare choice and competition
· Announcement of the Secretary of Homeland Security nominee

Ghenghis McCann

He’ll be so tired out with all this Presidenting that he’ll need to take a couple of weeks off and play golf.

Unmutual Tetsu Kaba

We can only hope. The less Presidenting he tries to do the better.

cmd resistor

Of course these 2 things will allow him to make word statements in public, always a risky scenario.

peep show is seriously one of my favorite things ever. oh mark, you horrible pos

miss_grundy

We have to make sure that he looks like the rich boy asshole he is between now and 2020. I don’t want to see another “celebrity” in the Oval Office ever again during my lifetime and beyond. I have had enough of Richy Riches and their ilk.

I used to work for this guy, until I retired in May. I hate to admit that he seemed like just another stuffed white shirt, way above my head. Who knew that he would turn into the knight in shining armor … or the boy who put his finger in the dike?

My apologies to the universe, and to Mr. Slavitt.

BTW, I used to contribute to crap like that memo. But never anywhere near that crappy, I hope. And I sincerely hope that nobody I know or care about, in that great, beautiful bureaucracy, had to soil themselves by contributing to it.

Impatient

I have a bone to pick with Yr Wonkette. I’ve already seen that tRump has threatened U.S. citizens in Puerto Rico, because he’s losing his “winning” buzz. And I’ve written my Congressman, asking him to start impeachment proceedings TODAY. (And repeated the suggestion in a NY Times comment, that they’ll load online sometime this evening?) But I have to confess that I can’t actually read all the way through any articles or opinion columns. And I has the best Readz!

I tried to read, or even skim this column. Lots of useful info! I ran into the Maddow video, and watched it … mostly. I think Maddow is great. Wish I could Thinkz and Wordz as well as she does. Can we just have a planet populated by Maddowzez, and Yr Wonkettezez, and Frankenzez? … Please, pretty please?

Soooo … I know, too many wordz, and boring … I went back to this article, and tried to actually read it, word for word. I stopped myself occasionally, and said, “Read it.” I got almost three quarters of the way through. And I finally did get a helluva laugh out of “the Queen will be busy grouting her tiles.” But I didn’t make it … And I concluded that Yr Wonkette lacks something: A Readingz Assistanty Thingy.

MY HUMBLE SUGGESTION: Please facilitate reading of your valuable articles … by placing a standardized, colorful and fun icon, on occasion throughout the article. (Kinda like a water station in a marathon.) Clicking on said icon would pop up kittenz, or puppiez, or babby hippoz, for carefully timed and structured periods, ending in gradual appearance of rainbows and the gentle suggestion that it’s time to go back to reading, and caring, and Grrring.

Please, pretty please?
Your faithful sorta reader.

Toomush_Inferesistance

General Kelly?….

Impatient

I’m sorry. Is that response to my comment. If so, it leaves me confused.

Toomush_Inferesistance

I thought perhaps you were General Kelly, looking for reading matter for donald. It helps him to have pictures to look at. Otherwise, apparently, he loses focus….

Impatient

I see that possibility. I had in mind more of a calming device. My counselor asked me, recently, whether I really WANTED to stop being angry. I can’t even concentrate on THAT question long enough to answer it.

I actually had the weird thought, shortly after the election, that imposing this argle bargle mess on all of us unsuspecting sittizens was really unfair. Seriously, like a teenager, I thought, “Unfair.”

But the mind-numbing impact of Trumpistan really is unfair to us, I think, in a very general sense. Not all of us humanz are cut out for this. Almost makes me want to cry. (We all react differently, don’t we.)

Toomush_Inferesistance

Try Grrrr…. (it’s got staying power)….

Persistent Demme

I know.
It’s injuring a lot of us.
I don’t know what to do except skim articles and comments a lot, and watch lots of animal videos.
I can’t quit Wonkette, cause it’s a real community that I care about.
I keep hoping that Mueller’s investigation will help, but I don’t know that the damage will be repairable.

Impatient

Thanks. Well said. But where the hell does a golden-haired chicken get such clarity?

And I, also too, can’t quit Wonkette. Thinking about the damage is getting to be unbearable. Maybe Pollyanna would say that it could help bring USA! back down to reality, and to a more reasonable position in the world? Okay, I’ll keep working on that; so far, I got nothin.

Persistent Demme

*sigh*
I guess we just have to keep hangin’ in there.

Pisto75666

I haven’t quit Wonkette (and I probably seem dumb for saying this) but it helps me a little to take a small break from the news. Like a half of a day. I know it’s not easy because everything going on affects us all so we have to pay attention but even still, we have to look out for ourselves too

Persistent Demme

It’s hard/impossible to strike a balance between being informed and being outraged.
I’m exhausted.

I really really miss the daily round up being obama’s Dijon mustard habit.

TundraGrifter

Arugula libulz!

TundraGrifter

And don’t forget the horror of wearing a tan suit! And putting his feet up on the desk. And not wearing a flag pin. And a highly edited video purporting to show he didn’t love Michelle any more. And the First Lady trying to do something about America’s fat kids…it’s overwhelming…

miss_grundy

Or that he worked in his shirtsleeves in the Oval, or he wore a tan suit or still likes arugula in his salad.

Anna Rompage

Come on folks, how long did you actually expect Doand to hang in there with his support of a country filled with Messicuns?

miss_grundy

Well, he didn’t respond right away, did he? And when he responded, it was already late and other organizations had already come to assist Puerto Rico. And when he finally made his appearance before his vetted audience, he decided to throw free throws of paper towels at their faces as if they could use these to wipe up the mess of washed out roads and bad water. But, hey, if you had listened during the election cycle, you would have realized that he doesn’t know shit about shinola but that didn’t stop his fellow bigots and idiots from voting for him.

MrTusks

Remember when we didn’t think about the president literally every day?

ltmcdies

feels like fucking forever and I’m a Canuck…..

Alan

I remember when I didn’t have to check Wonkette every morning to assure myself that the world didn’t end while I slept.

Impatient

Type “has the world ended” into google, and it’ll tell you something like ‘it hasn’t ended, because google/the internet is still responding.’

Personally, I prefer seeing that Orion is still up there in the early morning sky. Though I guess that only tells me that the stars are still there, and doesn’t preclude me just imagining that I’m here, and the planet is here. Have to work on that.

Candy Matson

Remember when we didn’t worry about the fucking launch codes every damn day?

miss_grundy

Well, we didn’t have to because we had a smart adult who read all of the white papers and reports that were sent to him, even though it meant that he didn’t go to bed until the wee hours of the morning. He didn’t get that grey hair from watching television.

Next donnie will propose shutting down Puerto Rico and deporting all the residents to Hispania where they belong.

Persistent Demme

Silly peacock!!

renegade500

Hey I’m not a chicken, but I have to admit, that’s a fancy peacock, even for how fancy peacocks normally are.

Also, today is all the rage inducing if you’re a woman. Most days these days are, but this morning the interwebs is really pissing me off, between, silencing Rose McGowan, lots of men saying that Anita Hill was a lying liar who lied, and now the “Women’s Convention” being put on my organizers of the Women’s March choosing an old white man (one Bernie Sanders who isn’t nearly the White Knight ally he’d like us to believe he is) to be the opening keynote. Because I guess it was so fucking hard to find an actual, accomplished woman to open the Woman’s Convention?

I’m ready to start flipping some tables.

Courser_Resistance

Wuh?? Fucking Bernie??? WTF has he EVER done for women??

JFK, if we can’t even get THIS right?

Zyxomma

I think you were so angry that you misspelled JFC.

Courser_Resistance

lolololol

Yes, I was! I stand corrected.

renegade500

Yep. That just made the news oh so delightful before the lunch hour today. FWIW on the FB event, the organizers are taking some serious heat about this, even from a number of self-identifying Sanders supporters.

Natalie Au Natural Hedonist

Snidely insulted and ruined the chances of the most qualified woman candidate ever.

Courser_Resistance

Agreed. I loath the bastard

Natalie Au Natural Hedonist

Me too. Especially since hearing he’s paid for by the NRA.

Courser_Resistance

I didn’t know about that, but yeah.

However, I do want to sound a note of caution. A LOT of politicians have taken NRA money over the years, usually in relatively small amounts. We need to be careful not to cut off our noses to spite our faces. But yes, we need to really examine the corporate donors of our candidates and reps.

Natalie Au Natural Hedonist

That is true, If you are a hunter or come from a hunting background they may be an acceptable donor.

Courser_Resistance

Hell, I was a member back in the 70’s before they elected the ghoul-in-chief. Obv, now I wouldn’t cross the street to spit on them if they were on fire.

Natalie Au Natural Hedonist

I might have a certificate for marksmanship type of thing from them. I did like target shooting but I never wanted to hurt anything so… I do wish karma would find wayne La Pierre soon, with a vengence (vote).

Courser_Resistance

In 1981 (yr I graduated college) the NRA Convention was in Denver and I won some bullseye contest. Everyone was surprised/excited that a young woman had one it (and I didn’t even know it was a contest when I fired. Just did the best I could).

The prize was something like $30. Which I used to buy a nice lavender dress at the nice dept store in town. I kept it for years and every time I wore it, I’d say, “The NRA bought me this dress” with a little smile.

Natalie Au Natural Hedonist

That is cool.
I remember those small town stores, and the lunch counter with the soda fountain at Liggetts.

TakingAmes

Yeah, I’m inclined to bitch about Bernie Sanders opening the women’s convention too. Like, seriously? They couldn’t find a woman in politics to open it?

I have zero sympathy for any gay person who voted for Trump. Then again, as a democrat with a lower case “d,” I also have zero sympathy for any one else who voted for Trump.

Hardly Ideal

I have a friend of the family, like a really weird and messed-up adopted brother. Lousy background, but grew up alright and came out as gay some years back.

After the election, he and his boyfriend made a stink on our Facebook. It sure sounded like he was in favor of Trump over Clinton, citing her involvement in the Defense of Marriage Act, which I guess made her evil beyond redemption. Then the transgender military ban came down, and they were shocked beyond words.

A line from Patton Oswalt complaining about the “Gay Best Friend” trope comes to mind: “Okay, so, I have gay friends, and a lot of them are idiots… (fails to keep a straight face) just like my straight friends (rueful chuckling).”

SeeTrain65

“But in every movie, all gay characters are these magical, intelligent quip machines … which, if you’re gay, has got to feel really dehumanizing after a while.”

“I want to be the first dumb gay best friend in the history of cinema.”

Ok, a small question that has been bugging me a bit lately. the US Army has a commercial out there now claiming they are “protecting” ou cyber security and is ALWAYS LOOKING and stopping crap…so what the fuck happened to Equifax dipshts?

Unmutual Tetsu Kaba

The military commercials that bug me are on Univision (Spanish language TV) encouraging people to sign up while ICE is deporting everyone they can, the Dreamers are getting shit on and the PEOTUS is threatening to pull aid out of Puerto Rico.

phoenix00

Equifax is a private corporation, and would not fall under the purview of the military unless the government deemed it so.

At least to my knowledge….

covfefesumgame0005

have you seen the one I was talking about? the commercial does not make that distinction, and in fact implies it is protecting out personal data

The 1st half is a bit too Hollywood fear-monger-y for my liking, but the 2nd half is good recruitment plug.

Hell, just cut the first half, leave the 2nd, and it’s an even better ad.

Pisto75666

Call me a masochist, I couldn’t help reading the comments on that Zuckerberg Mediaite article.

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Jim Tcol • 8 hours ago Don’t get me wrong I voted for Trump and think he is doing a great job against all of the resistance Washington is throwing up against him. The man is under pressure like none of the political elite could handle. They would have all resigned long before now. I think Trump has a more powerful mind than most of the idiots in that town.” ”

WHERE TO START?!

Hardly Ideal

I think the best way to start here is DON’T.

Pisto75666

I’ll give this administration one credit….it’s really helping me combat my compulsion to argue with stupid people online. I’ve always had this thing where I feel like I HAVE to give my opinion and try to show the other person how they might be wrong. Now I’m realizing my life is short, and there aren’t enough days with nice weather.

Natalie Au Natural Hedonist

Reminds me of the old adage…and it annoys the pig.

SeeTrain65

Doesn’t matter where you start. They’ll never stop.

They’re ignorant and violent. They can’t be reasoned with.

Pisto75666

Took me a really long time to figure that out.

Bitter Scribe

Fun fact about African fashion and textiles: A lot of what we think of as “African” style (loud colors, large-pattern prints, etc.) was actually originated by some Dutch company back in the colonial days. IOW, the West imposed even their fashion sense.

For the second time this year, President Donald Trump tried to leave an executive order signing ceremony before he actually signed the order.

On Thursday, the president finished his remarks about an executive order he was about to sign that would weaken key insurance regulations of the Affordable Care Act. He then started shaking hands with people in the room and started walking definitively toward the exit.

At that point, Vice President Mike Pence had to walk over to him, tap him on the arm, and remind him that he still needed to sign the executive order.

John Thorstensen

He really is showing signs of dementia. This may be the cover that the Republicans need.

Pisto75666

Let’s hope!

SeeTrain65

It would be more funny if the shit he was signing wasn’t so appallingly awful.

phoenix00

He should’ve just left.

Mike Pence is the garbage human being, but we all knew that coming in.

Shibusa

We can keep the military in Afghanistan for decades but we can’t keep them in a US territory long enough to restore power and drinking water. [@DavidKlion]

eyelashviper

Male peacocks are glorious creatures, but they do lack higher brain function. We have a bevy of peafowl, and the males are fairly indiscriminate about who or what they present their fine feathers and dance moves to. One tried a wild turkey, and was very dejected, even hen pecked. They also try with grazing horses, deer, sleeping dogs, lawn furniture and assorted inanimate objects. Spring is wild, and they don’t give up until they lose their gorgeous tail feathers. They also assault their images, seeing another suitor in their midst, so windows, car bumbers and any shiny surface is in danger of their attacks, and they do have very sharp beaks, claws and spurs. Whatever their behavior, they are well worth the pleasure of seeing them everyday.

Hey, donnie. You are one pathetic, asshole, Loser in Chief. Just my opinion, of course. Two words why he is neglecting Puerto Rico: Female Mayor. He hates the skirts that are smarter than him & more compassionate. And he sure as hell hates to be rebuked by the ladies. Like the old poem says, Everybody hates me…… Go eat some worms, jerk!
FM, over & out (for now)

Empress of the Iguana People

That is one confused peaboi. Not to be confused with the orange peeboy

Khavrinen

“a signal that the Queen will be busy grouting her tiles.”

Hmmm, take the Corgis for a walk, or meet with Donald Trump? Not really a tough call, there.

TakingAmes

Peacock and chicken are amazing! Peacock’s all, “Look at MEEEEEEEE!!!” Chicken’s all, “Whatever dude. There are grubs to eat.”